When comparing Codiad vs PaizaCloud IDE, the Slant community recommends PaizaCloud IDE for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud IDEs?”PaizaCloud IDE is ranked 8th while Codiad is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose PaizaCloud IDE is:

PaizaCloud launches new development environment server just in 3 seconds. So, you can casually create or destroy server.

Pros

Pro

Multi-line edit

Allows to edit multiple things are once by having multiple cursors like Sublime Text.

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Easy to self-host: Only requires PHP

It only requires PHP 5+ and Nginx or Apache. No database is required. This makes it really easy to install on many servers include shared hosting.

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Has many easily installable plugins

Many plugins exist, from Terminal, Git to Collaboration and Emmet... Plugins can be installed by using the web interface, or by manually extracting files to the right directory.

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Open source

You can run Codiad on your server to allow you and your team to edit files.Simplest to run may be using a Docker image like linuxserver/codiad.

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Simple and easily managable GUI

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3 seconds instant launch

PaizaCloud launches new development environment server just in 3 seconds. So, you can casually create or destroy server.

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Floating window manager

PaizaCloud provides Floating window manager like Windows or Mac by default. It makes the environment more flexible. PaizaCloud also provides Tab window mode when you want to use the full screen for one purpose.

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HTTP/HTTPS access to any ports

PaizaCloud allow you to access almost all ports for HTTP/HTTPs access.

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No credit card required

No credit card is required for FREE plan.

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Internationalization

PaizaCloud's Editor or Terminal fully support non-ASCII languages like Japanese, Chinese, European languages.

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Extensible PaizaCloud app

PaizaCloud provides standard application like File manager, Editor, Terminal. But, PaizaCloud also provides the possibility to add or even create new App-for-PaizaCloud using HTML/CSS.

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Terminal with root

In PaizaCloud, you can sudo to root. So, you can install packages, or run service freely.

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Supports Jupyter notebook

PaizaCloud has Jupyter Notebook support with Python libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, or matplotlib built-in.

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Google Home / Google Assistant development in the browser

As PaizaCloud runs in the cloud, you can develop and run the Google Home / Google Assistant application, without deploying to another server.

Cons

Con

Full of small bugs

There are plenty of various issues and bug that may either be due to your setup and the UI will not report them, or due to bugs in the code; I'm including common plugins here as well (just naming a few: search files and in files may report nothing if it had an error, commands stderr not printed, marketplace not showing items, search in market place showing no results, Git escaping ( by \( in the commit message for no good reason...). Those are generally small but together it makes the product feel flawed.

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Terminal runs as same user for everyone

No matter who is the logged in user, the Terminal plugin runs commands as the PHP user. This also affects the Git plugin in that there is a single SSH key for all users using your Codiad instance.

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Currently no search and replace in multiple files

There is a search in multiple files, and search & replace in current file, but not something to perform a search & replace in multiple files.

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Terminal doesn't TTY

The terminal plugin for Codiad allows users to type some commands and see the outputs, but not interactive input is supported (i.e. stdin is closed). Meaning you cannot run Vim, Tmux or anything requiring user inputs.